Josef Fritzl's 'House of Horrors' turned in to $700 a month apartments

The 25-room boarding house above the 'dungeon' where Elisabeth Fritzl was subjected to years of horrific abuse at the hands of her father, Josef Fritzl has been turned in to apartments. And the new landlords are looking for tenants.

An engineer by trade, he built a secret lair secured by eight locked doors in the basement. There he raped his daughter, Elisabeth more than 3000 times during a 24-year period, fathering seven children.

One of the baby's died from breathing problems after Fritzl refused to call for medical help, and his tiny body was cremated by his father on a wood stove in the underground bunker where its mother and three siblings were kept captive.

The back of Josef Fritzl's former home

He always maintained Elisabeth had run away and joined a cult, dumping three of her young children on his doorstep. His tenants and wife, Rosemarie (who has since filed for divorce) only found out the truth in 2008 when he allowed his daughter to visit her eldest in hospital, and she alerted detectives to their plight.

Now, the 'House of Horrors' is unrecognisable having been turned in to 10 brand new apartments by the new owners, with wooden floors and modern kitchens and bathrooms. The basement itself was bricked up by Austrian authorities to prevent it becoming a shrine.

Josef Fritzl

The Houska's, who own a local strip club, say they have had no problem finding new tenants to live in the unit.

"Most of the apartments have gone", Mr Houska told the Daily Mail. "No one feels there is a stigma living here".

He added the community wanted to "bury the terrible past and usher in a new era".

Elisabeth has no contact with her father. She now lives with her children under a pseudonym in a tiny hamlet which the Austrian media refer to only as 'Village X'.